On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Ron Ritzman wrote:
A question I thought of after reading [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angr this]. Is Wikipedia a free (libre) encyclopedia or a free (beer) encyclopedia that primarily uses a free (libre) license?
You can view it lots of different ways, I suppose.
The way it is viewed IMHO affects what our non free content policy should be. If it is viewed as the former, then User:Angr and those who say that all non-free images should be prohibited have a strong case. If it is viewed as the latter, then it can be argued that a good image, free or otherwise, means a better article and better articles mean a better encyclopedia. In other words, IAR.